Shu-ha-ri: How to Break the Rules and Still Be Agile

Abstract

Fata Informatica is a software house that produces a commercial system widely used by Defence Organizations. Our first approach to software development was standard waterfall, but during the years, our team adopted an agile-driven approach. The agile adoption was a long sweaty path that lead us through the Shu-ha-ri Aikido stages and let us implement our own agile framework. In this contribution will be shown as Fata Informatica’s team defines the product increments that add the more value to the customers, how they develop and deliver them into the market. A description of our value and cost evaluation and the way we choose which increments add to a specific delivery, Fata Informatica’s agile approach to the stakeholder engagement and how the static roadmap concept is outdated by a more agile roadmap definition approach will also be shown in order to meet the increasingly needs of our stakeholder.